With the referees coming into the room before the game and explaining the rules, |
You can see it in his look and his preparations. He's not looking around for answers anymore. He just knows what he has to do. It comes from maturity, it comes from playing well lately. It's confidence. |
You have to give him credit. He's been known as a defensive coach pretty much his whole career. |
You look at the beginning of the year, everybody was thinking that we were a team that, if we were lucky, we would be battling for a playoff spot in the end. That wasn't good enough for us. We found a way to clinch early and only finished three points behind Ottawa. We showed we belonged with the best. It's the same attitude that we're going to bring to the playoffs. |
You lose a couple games and you think it's bad luck and it'll come back, but with such a long losing streak, it made us take a look at everything again and make sure we make the adjustments before the playoffs. I really meant it when I said this will make us a better team. |
You see all those players moving around and, for the most part, we've kept the same team. It's going to be very different when we start playing all these other teams. |